Anatoly Proshkin

Painter, graphic artist, teacher, writer. Younger brother of Victor Proshkin, brother-in-law of Victoria Belakovskaya, uncle of Vladimir Proshkin, father of film director Alexander Proshkin (born 1940). Born in Kharkiv in the family of a merchant called Nikolai Proshkin from Oboyan in Kursk Province (1907). Studied at Kharkiv Technical College of Folk Creativity (1921–23) and under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Grigory Bobrovsky, Alexander Savinov and Alexei Karev at the VKhUTEIN in Leningrad (1924–30). Member of October (1929–30), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1930–32) and the Union of Artists (from 1934). Travelled with Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin to Novgorod (1936) and accompanied him as far as Rybinsk on his voyage from Leningrad to Perm (1938). Married a translator called Anna (1909–1972), who gave birth to a son called Alexander (1940). Fought on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts during the Second World War (1941–44). Taught at the Higher School of Art and Industry/Vera Mukhina School of Art and Industry in Leningrad (from 1947). Wrote articles and notes on the teaching of drawing to designers and architects (1969–82) and memoirs ?f Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1982). Died in Leningrad (1986). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1931). Contributed to the Exhibition of Works by Artists Dispatched to Regions of Industrial and Collective-Farm Construction in Vsekokhudozhnik at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1931), Exhibition of Summer Works at the House of the Artist in Leningrad (1934), Exhibition of Pictures by Leningrad Artists in Moscow (1935), First Exhibition of Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1935), Exhibition of Pictures and Graphic Art by Leningrad Artists in Baku (1935), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1939), Young Artists of the RSFSR in Moscow (1939), Exhibition of Works by Artists of Leningrad at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1941), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists in the Days of the Second World War at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (1941), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1943), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists in Leningrad (1947), Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Leningrad Artists in Khabarovsk (1947), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1951), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1954), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1955), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1956), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1956), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1960), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists of 1960 at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1960), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum and Union of Artists in Leningrad (1961), Leningrad: Zonal Exhibition at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1964), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1965), Zonal Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Leningrad (1980), Victoria Belakovskaya, Anatoly Proshkin, Victor Proshkin: Painting, Graphic Art at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1993) and Petersburg Dynasty at the Alexander Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2004).